Friday, Advent Three - God’s Dream

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“Rebbe Barukh’s grandson, Yehiel, came running into his study in tears. ‘Yehiel, Yehiel, why are you crying?”

“My friend cheats! Its’ unfair; he left me all by myself, that’s why I am crying.”

“Woud you like to tell me about it?”

“Certainly, Grandfather. We played hide and seek, and it was my turn to hide and his turn to look for me. So he gave up; he stopped looking. And that’s unfair.”

Rebbe Barukh began to caress Yehiel’s face, and tears welled up in his eyes. “God too, Yehiel,” he whispered softly. “God too is unhappy; he is hiding, and man is not looking for him. Do you understand, Yehiel? God is hiding and man is not even searching for him.”

Hasidic tale told by Elie Wiesel, An Advent Sourcebook, page 95.